15 comments:

Hi Nancy, Happy Birthday greetings coming all the way from Jamaica to Tess! These pictures are so-o-o beautiful and the interview is also quite interesting. Take care and have a good time celebrating with Tess. Judy

Tess! You are so beautiful! Happy Birthday Sweet Girl! Hope you have a wonderful birthday and Lots and Lots of Noodoo's (:Happy Birthday~ Much love and birthday wishes from NebraskaGod Bless- Kirstie Bikakis

Awww, this is plain precious! Linhsey turned 5 on September 1rst. She ate noodles for breakfast that day. Dinner? She wanted crab legs. Some vegetarian she is! I love love love the sun flare you have in these pictures. She's beautiful no matter how many fingers she holds up , noodles she eats, and TV she watches! I hope she had the best birthday noodles EVER! Happy Birthday Tess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 yrs - the average time a child spends in American foster care before being adopted

1.5 million children live in public care in Central and Eastern Europe

12.4 million orphans live in Latin America and the Carribean

43.4 million orphans live in sub-Saharan Africa

87.6 million orphans live in Asia

16 million children were orphaned in 2003

Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned as a result of AIDS

400,000+ children in the American Foster Care in 2011

20,000+ young people "age out" of the U.S. foster care system each year. Of these only a little over half will earn a high school diploma.

147 million orphans in the world

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